Short Subject Video
I have been working with video and filmmaking since the mid-eighties, with highlights being producing for Al Jazeeera International with a piece for their People and Power segment about post- Hurricanes Katrina and Rita toxicity. Together with a producing partner we earned an emmy nomination for a short animation swim about an African American marine biologist who as a child took a yearly trip from North Carolina to South Carolina to spend time on a segregated beach.
Al Jazeera International’s People and Power show features Jon Goldman’s WILMA’S WARNING about a MacArthur Award-winning environmental chemist on the Louisiana coast fighting corporate pollution.
This large-scale bright yellow Urchin was a commission for the Japanese company PARCO as part of Jon Goldman’s AIR AQUARIUM series of inflatable sculptures. Ultimately the big yellow urchin was installed in Hibarigaoka, outside of Tokyo on the roof of it brand new vertical mall owned by Art-forward PARCO.
As tourism and overdevelopment collides with Climate Change a sustainable culture is transformed on the island of Bali, Indonesia, as traditional rice farming is under assault because of water shortages diverted to villas, hotels and and other strains on the infrastructure. As water becomes the next battleground in resources, is the only outlook for the […]
You can’t drive a car today without feeling responsible for what happened on the Gulf Coast in the largest oil spill in U.S. history.
Faulty concrete, lack of supervision, and profit motive aside, we still have gas in our tanks, while our electrical vehicles charge via hydroelectric, and coal, and the solar farm reduces our energy costs for ten years.
Still, EVERYTHING we touch, purchase, see, eat, DO, imagine is made possible because of decisions made on a model for unsustainable industrialization.
Facing the sacrifices of the challenge to do better is daunting at the very least. Undeniably the temperature, the water levels, the quantity of stuff increases.
Welcome to the conundrum of our time.